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24 Days in Brooks
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directed by Dana Inkster; produced by Bonnie Thompson, National Film Board of Canada (Ottawa, ON: National Film Board of Canada, 2007), 42 mins
Over the course of a decade Brooks, Alberta, transformed from a socially conservative, primarily white town to one of the most diverse places in Canada as immigrants and refugees flocked to find jobs at the Lakeside Packers slaughterhouse. This film is a portrait of those people working together and adapting to ch...
directed by Dana Inkster; produced by Bonnie Thompson, National Film Board of Canada (Ottawa, ON: National Film Board of Canada, 2007), 42 mins
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Barbed Wire and Mandolins
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directed by Nicola Zavaglia; produced by Sam Grana, fl. 1974, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and National Film Board of Canada (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 1997), 48 mins
This short documentary introduces us to Italian-Canadians whose lives were disrupted and uprooted by seclusion in internment camps during the Second World War. On June 10, 1940, Italy entered WWII.
 Overnight, the Canadian government came to see the country's 112,000 Italian-Canadians as a threat to its national...
directed by Nicola Zavaglia; produced by Sam Grana, fl. 1974, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and National Film Board of Canada (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 1997), 48 mins
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Blue Vanguard
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directed by Ian MacNeill, fl. 1954; produced by Tom Daly, 1918-2011, National Film Board of Canada and United Nations. Film Board (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 1957), 59 mins
A film made for the United Nations to chronicle its role in restoring peace in the Middle East after the Suez Crisis of October 1956.
directed by Ian MacNeill, fl. 1954; produced by Tom Daly, 1918-2011, National Film Board of Canada and United Nations. Film Board (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 1957), 59 mins
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Bronwen & Yaffa (Moving Towards Tolerance)
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directed by Peter d'Entremont, fl. 1980; produced by Michael Mahoney, National Film Board of Canada (Montreal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 1996), 27 mins
Against a vibrant soundtrack of punk and rap music, two extraordinary young women from Halifax create change at the grassroots level by organizing benefit rock concerts to raise money for Eastcoast Against Racism (E.A.R.). Bronwen and Yaffa have both experienced racism in their own lives and are determined to make...
directed by Peter d'Entremont, fl. 1980; produced by Michael Mahoney, National Film Board of Canada (Montreal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 1996), 27 mins
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Canada Carries On, Churchill's Island
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directed by Stuart Legg, 1910-1988; produced by Stuart Legg, 1910-1988, National Film Board of Canada, in Canada Carries On (Montreal, QC: National Film Board of Canada), 21 mins
This film won the NFB its first Oscar® and was also the first documentary to win this coveted award. It presents the strategy of the Battle of Britain, showing with penetrating clarity the relationship of the various forces that went to make up the island's defences. Here is the Royal Air Force in its epic battle...
directed by Stuart Legg, 1910-1988; produced by Stuart Legg, 1910-1988, National Film Board of Canada, in Canada Carries On (Montreal, QC: National Film Board of Canada), 21 mins
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Canada Carries On, Food, Weapon of Conquest
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directed by Stuart Legg, 1910-1988; produced by National Film Board of Canada, in Canada Carries On (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada), 21 mins
The Nazi-occupied countries have been forced to hand over their farm produce to Germany, leaving their own populations without food. The Western world must now not only feed its own overseas armies, but must also meet the challenge of feeding hundreds of millions in continental Europe and Asia during the postwar y...
directed by Stuart Legg, 1910-1988; produced by National Film Board of Canada, in Canada Carries On (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada), 21 mins
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Canada Carries On, Break-through
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produced by National Film Board of Canada, in Canada Carries On (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada), 11 mins
Allied troops land on the Normandy coast and drive eastward to the gates of Germany. Opening scenes are of the D-Day landings and establishment of Canadian forces on the beachhead. Pictures of bitter street fighting and of pin-point bombing tell the story of Caen's capture and the advance towards Falaise. Made fro...
produced by National Film Board of Canada, in Canada Carries On (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada), 11 mins
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Fields of Sacrifice
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directed by Donald Brittain, 1928-1989; produced by Donald Brittain, 1928-1989, National Film Board of Canada (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada), 38 mins
A film of dignity and beauty - memorable tribute to more than 100,000 Canadians who gave their lives in the service of their country on foreign battlegrounds. The film visits battlefields of the first and second World Wars and cemeteries where servicemen are buried. Filmed from Hong Kong to Sicily, this documentar...
directed by Donald Brittain, 1928-1989; produced by Donald Brittain, 1928-1989, National Film Board of Canada (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada), 38 mins
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Front Lines
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directed by Claude Guilmain, fl. 2008; produced by Anne-Marie Rocher, fl. 2008, National Film Board of Canada (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 2008), 34 mins
A tribute to the combatants in the First World War, this film traces the conflict through the war diary and private letters of five Canadian soldiers and a nurse. Hearing them, the listener detects between the lines an unspoken horror censored by war and propriety. The film mingles war footage, historical photos a...
directed by Claude Guilmain, fl. 2008; produced by Anne-Marie Rocher, fl. 2008, National Film Board of Canada (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 2008), 34 mins
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Global Air Routes
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directed by Stuart Legg, 1910-1988; produced by National Film Board of Canada (Montreal, QC: National Film Board of Canada), 15 mins
This is an account of the development of air transport during wartime and a review of problems to be solved in regulating international civil aviation. The air routes established to connect Russia with Canada and the United States are traced, and the contribution of air transport to world unity is indicated.
directed by Stuart Legg, 1910-1988; produced by National Film Board of Canada (Montreal, QC: National Film Board of Canada), 15 mins
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